By Hannah Zedaker Lone Star College [System] should increase its outreach, especially in our African American and Latin [American] communities. We should recruit students in more mediums. This means, in addition to in-person recruitment at schools, we are doing more digitally to engage people in [...]

By Liz Blood Finances: 74 percent of survivors report staying with an abuser for economic reasons. (Institute for Women’s Policy Research) >Read more

By James Paterson Meanwhile, fewer institutions are offering child care services for students. In 2015, 49% of four-year public colleges offered child care, according to the Institute for Women's Policy Research, down from 55% in 2005. The share of community colleges with child care centers dropped from 53% in [...]

By Andrea Camp Closing the income gap should be a national economic priority. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, if women were paid the same as men, the poverty rate among working women would decrease from the current 8 percent to 3.8 percent, [...]

By Brian Zahn The economic impact of education can be stark, the report argues. According to a cited report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, a single mother with an associate degree makes an average of $153,000 more in her lifetime than a single mother [...]

By Wilborn P. Nobles III Women working full-time jobs in Louisiana make about 67 cents for every dollar made by a white man also employed full-time, according to the Institute for Women's Policy Research study, called "The Status of Women in the States." That figure worsens for [...]